The province’s Internet Child Exploitation team was tipped off by FBI officers in Connecticut. They had flagged online distribution of child pornography which seemed to be coming from the community of Lac La Biche, about 230 kilometres north of Edmonton.

ICE members and Lac La Biche RCMP officers searched a home Thursday and seized computer equipment and electronic storage devices. An arrest was made by Bonnyville RCMP.

A search of the man’s Alberta government workplace in Lac La Biche led to police seizing the man’s work computer equipment as well.

Daniel Quiring Stoesz, 62, appeared Friday in Lac La Biche court. He remains in custody. He is expected to appear in court again Monday. Stoesz works for Alberta’s Ministry of Human Services.